Manager Nurse Job Description
Manager nurse
provides leadership in compliance with regulatory agency standards, national nursing standards and specialty nursing standards.
Manager Nurse Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective manager nurse job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included manager nurse job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Implement policies and procedures for the maintenance of clinic pharmacy
Ensuring compliance with contractual requirements, established policies and procedures, and applicable regulations
Understands and assists with implementing and maintaining personnel policies, employee benefit package, wage and salary program, and appropriate job descriptions that have approval by the Governing Body
Ensures that the day-to-day operations are conducted in accordance with clinical practice standards and the policies of the Center
Understands regulatory standards (AAAHC, CMS, and OSHA) and assists in preparation for and compliance with regulatory agency inspections/audits
Interact with hospital staff including doctors and administrators, patients and their families, and the general public
Develop effective working relationships with all members of the nursing/OR staff, surgical staff, anesthesia staff, and other surgery center departments
Establish, in collaboration with the Executive Director, quality and service standards for outpatient surgical services
Develop systems to ensure that standards are maintained
Provide daily clinical support to other provider staff
Manager Nurse Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Manager Nurse
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BLS, CRRN, CPR, BCLS, CRNI, AED, CPHQ, PALS, CDN, CNN
Education for Manager Nurse
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the manager nurse job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Nursing, Education, Graduate, Science, Management, Nursing Program, Business/Administration, Public Health, Leadership, School of Nursing
Skills for Manager Nurse
Desired skills for manager nurse include:
CAP
CMS
Ensures compliance with all regulatory and professional standards of care which includes JCAHO
IHI
Community health and social service agencies and additional community resources
TLC systems/clinical practices
Departmental and care center standards
Hospital
Policies
Procedures and guidelines regulatory agency standards
Desired experience for manager nurse includes:
Provide nursing case management for patients, including those with acute or chronic illnesses or conditions
Ensure an adequate patient-flow system
Lead clinic Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) program
Assure comprehensive, coordinated, continuous care to patients that supports the patient-centered medical home
Meet weekly with foster care Nursing Assistant Supervisor and Social Work Supervisors
Implement philosophy and objectives of the program
Manager Nurse Examples
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Manager Nurse Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of manager nurse. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for manager nurse
- Implements and mentors employees regarding policies on professional expectations, code of conduct and other practices and procedures, serves as a role model for clients and employees and supports the company’s mission, goals and objectives
- Chairs committees as appropriate
- Effectively recruits and hires quality staff to ensure adequate staffing at all times
- Administers effective employee performance management through continuous coaching and development
- Administers appropriate corrective action in timely manner to address behavior/performance matters in accordance with policy and procedure
- Attends and participate in MEC and Governing Body meetings
- Conduct staff meetings at regular intervals for informative and educational purposes
- Assists with facility marketing efforts
- Assists with implementing on-going risk management program
- Completes variance reports as necessary
Qualifications for manager nurse
- This is a full-time position working Monday - Friday, daytime shifts with rotating weekends
- Certification in Nursing preferred
- Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing or equivalent required
- Minimum 3-5 years progressive operating room management experience with demonstrated leadership skills
- Minimum of 6 months' experience in providing nursing care to patients on maintenance dialysis preferred
- Ability to maintain CPR certification
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of manager nurse. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for manager nurse
- Evaluates nursing staff in accordance with established standards of care, evaluation criteria and personnel policies
- Mediates problems involving patient/families, hospital personnel and public
- Provides direct supervision of seclusion and restraint in accordance with age-specific interventions, policies, procedures and regulatory requirements
- Participates in, or independently develops, manages and monitors the unit budget
- Recruits, interviews, hires, supervises, evaluates and disciplines nursing and other support staff
- Maintains a system for accurately recording and reporting patient care activities in order to ensure quality health care
- Coordinates research projects and/or participates in formal research activities
- Oversee recruitment of study participants from the rheumatology clinic and the local area
- Advocates for a work environment that minimized work-related illness and injury
- Provides for Registered Nurse and assistive personnel supervision at the appropriate depth and scope for the patient/population needs
Qualifications for manager nurse
- Time may be spent sitting at a computer, collaborating with other healthcare team members
- Two (2) years experience in surgery management that must include pre-op, intra-op, post-op care with total joint and spine experience
- Minimum 3 years’ nursing supervisory experience
- State License
- 2+ years in Medical Surgical clinical experience required
- Minimum 3-years’ experience combined clinical and leadership experience, Previous Telemetry Interpretation, ACLS, PALS Required, MSN preferred
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of manager nurse. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for manager nurse
- Supports the Hospital’s commitment to community affairs
- Ensures that a safe environment for our patients is maintained by consistent compliance with policies and procedures relating to national patient safety goals, sentinel event alerts, and FMEA's (Failure Mode Effects Analysis) and other issues identified through the patient safety program
- Develops and administers policies and procedures are developed to ensure quality and safe delivery of care
- Effective knowledge Hospital policy and procedures
- Nurse Manager for a 72 bed Medical Surgical Unit
- Develops, administers, manages, and implements all nursing and related patient care activities for areas of accountability
- Works in close collaboration with the nursing team to meet and support diverse organizational business initiatives/strategies
- Maintains nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training nurses and auxiliary staff
- Supervises and evaluates nursing unit personnel for a specific shift in accordance with established evaluation criteria and personnel polices
- Administers medications and medical treatment error-free in accordance with departmental procedures and physician orders
Qualifications for manager nurse
- 2-5 years related work experience required with a minimum of one year progressive nursing leadership experience at the unit or service line supervisor level required
- Minnesota Registered Nurse License
- Previous experience in long term care, home health, or acute care nursing
- Supervisory and leadership experience preferred
- Current RN license in Utah, Current BLS certification
- 2 years clinical experience and 1 year managerial experience preferred
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of manager nurse. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for manager nurse
- Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality improvement initiatives, safety, environmental and infection control standards
- Ensures the accurate and consistent completion of all regulatory requirements ie FIMs, QRP, and any other CMS reporting requirements
- Develops, maintains and evaluates quality assurance records and treatment and reporting methods for the department
- Serves as a role model for nursing staff, assisting them to meet responsibilities for their positions and ensuring their educational requirements are met
- Establishes, submits and monitors unit service operating objectives
- The manager works with members of administration, physicians and other members of the interdisciplinary team to assure lines of communication are open and processes for problem resolution are in place
- Develops, implements, and evaluates adequate staffing to address staffing needs for delivery of quality services
- Continually monitors and evaluates staff job performances
- Ensures a smooth transition of quality patient care from one shift to the next
- Collaborates with Nursing Education to ensure that the Learning needs of HealthAlliance staff are assessed annually and staff education plans are developed annually and as needed based on identified needs
Qualifications for manager nurse
- Sets and maintains nursing care standards
- Ability to plan strategically and manage change
- Knowledge of pertinent accreditation bodies such as JCAHO is desirable
- Working knowledge of all software applications used by the supported group
- Current RN license to practice in the State of South Carolina
- National nursing certification in specialty preferred at time of hire
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a manager nurse. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for manager nurse
- Follow company Health and Safety and expense policies and follow privacy and document retention policy
- Developing and maintaining written objectives, policies, a procedure manual, an organizational plan, and a quality assurance program for the nursing service
- Promotes safety of patients and personnel by compliance with institution and regulatory agency standards and policies
- Collaborates with the Administrator in the development of the clinical budgets for the facility, monitoring expenses and reporting of variances
- Demonstrates leadership ability and exceptional professional behavior while conducting day-to-day responsibilities at the facility
- Selects, trains, orients, develops and evaluates performance of the department staff
- Develops departmental budgets
- Coordinates and reports outcome of nursing activities performed on behalf of the patient
- Attends meetings and actively participates on nursing committees and interdisciplinary committees, as appropriate
- Ensures establishment and implementation of unit goals and objectives are in alignment with the facility and system
Qualifications for manager nurse
- Ability to use deductive and common sense reasoning to problem solve on a frequent basis
- Three years of progressively responsible nursing leadership experience strongly preferred
- Membership of relevant professional organization preferred
- Three years of RN experience, with two years of experience in the clinical specialty preferred
- Master's Degree preferred or obtained within 2 years of start date
- Competitive compensation package available!